Brianna shrunk a bit at Masha's demands. but she understood that Masha deserved to know. Brianna hung her head low as she explained her story.
"my...father...is the ice devil...he was just passing by our village when he met my mother...she was scared of him but my father forced himself on her and my mother ended up pregnant...my mother died when she gave birth to me and when she died the ice devil was slightly angry. he started demanding that the village gives him a sacrifice every four months. he had also asked that the villagers don't dare hurt me...but then everyone wanted to kill me...so they put me on fire on a large pike with oil. it hurt...
but then the ice devil came and froze the fire completely while sending his ice spirits to destroy the fields...nobody touched me again but the ice devil started sending his ice spirits to kidnap some people while freezing them...that's all..."
the little girl spoke while holding back tears. she was sniffing now while Masha was trying really hard to keep calm. Masha tried to get more information out of the little girl only to find that the little girl didn't know too much.
"hey, Masha!"
Masha was slightly disturbed as she heard the voice. she turned her head sharply and tears were forming in her eyes. it was Lady Alyssa! Masha couldn't care less about the village anymore as she started running as fast as she could to Alyssa.
she stopped running and slowed down before she knelt and started apologising profusely for her actions. she was sorry that she couldn't be of help when it mattered. she cried and apologised for five minutes before Alyssa asked her to stand up.
"it's fine...Marvin and I thankfully managed to survive so there's no harm done."
Alyssa spoke while trying to avoid Masha's gaze...she was silently laughing while trying to make it unobvious.
Marv and Finn noticed this but just ignored her as they both looked at the little girl who was standing alone. she was now rubbing her eyes as tear streaks were on her face. she was really sad but had been abandoned by Masha in a heartbeat.
Marv looked at Finn while asking if he could sense what he did and Finn agreed.
they both nodded at each other before they slowly walked towards the little girl. Finn had small golden flames burning within his dark pupils while Marv had already started casting [rose scythe]. the duo had reached the little girl and stood to her left and right. Marv held his crimson scythe while Finn was holding a large single-edged longsword. he was letting his aura out and the little girl stopped her rubbing while looking at Finn with a scared look. Marv didn't know how to release aura so he simply just stood with his scythe in his left hand.
"I...I'm sowwy!"
the little girl spoke in a little whisper as she started crying. she was genuinely scared and knew the look in their eyes...it was similar to when the villagers attempted to burn her alive. she didn't know what to do to get their forgiveness but knew this would happen eventually. that was when Marv spoke up...
"little girl...what exactly are you?"
the little girl jumped back in fear and replied that she was the child of the ice devil...Marv looked to Finn with a questioning look...
{what should we do?}
this was what Marv was trying to get across but Finn couldn't wait any longer and simply raised his sword high. he brought it down at high speeds and was about to strike the little girl.
"GRANDIUS-EL-TRI!"
a hoarse voice could be heard just as Finn's sword was about to strike the little girl. a semi-transparent barrier appeared just above the little girl while deflecting Finn's sword. Finn was annoyed by this as he yelled in anger.
he turned around to look for who would do that and he saw the village doctor struggling to run towards them. his right palm was raised as a magic circle was slowly disappearing before his hands. he was sweating profusely and was breathing roughly. he hadn't even reached halfway to the group before he collapsed.
Marv was now blinking slowly just to try to understand what he had just seen. he had seen the village doctor perform magic while struggling to run to the group...why did Marv feel like he had just seen some form of black comedy.
Masha was still apologising to Alyssa while Marv and Finn headed over to the village doctor with the little girl in tow. they could simply kill her after they learnt why the old man tried to protect her. Finn had stopped releasing his aura as they had now reached the old man. Marv helped up the man up while Finn simply just kicked a pebble to the side. the village doctor had gotten up and was now trying to catch his breath. he coughed a bit before he gazed sadly at the little girl.
"I'm sorry that I'm late..."
he spoke these words to the little girl before he looked up to Marv and Finn. he apologised first for bothering them with helping his frail body. Marv accepted the apology while Finn simply shrugged it off before he looked to the old man with the golden flames in his eyes slowly enlargening.
"didn't I warn you that I should better not return alive...I'm here."
the village doctor simply laughed at this before reintroducing himself as Viktor. he asked that the group head back to the girls before he told what he wanted to. he wanted all of them to hear it.
Finn had no problems with this while Marv helped the man. the little girl had stopped crying and was now clinging to the robe of the village doctor. the village doctor kept patting her head until they had reached the girls who were now watching them closely.
"I think it's about time I told you the truth about our village..."
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